Oct 8, 2026, 8:50 PMAs a person with AuDHD who has experienced burnout multiple times and is now eleven years burnout free, I’ve used these phrases to help me improve a number of different areas of my life:
- When I’m happy, let myself be happy.
- When I’m tired, let myself be tired.
- When I’m sick, let myself be sick. (i.e. Don’t push through and overdo it.)
- When I’m excited, let myself be excited.
- When I’m feeling good, let myself feel good.
Etc.
Oct 8, 2026, 8:50 PMAs I did this, I started noticing the good moments. The good experiences. The good days and weeks that eventually became good months and now I’m well into a decade that has actually been pretty good.
That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been bad experiences. Difficult things. Painful things, even. But my overall outlook isn’t negative anymore. It’s by and large pretty neutral, tending towards positive. And, I’ve gotten some well needed rest. 😉
Oct 8, 2026, 8:50 PMRead more about Shifting Negative Thought Patterns on my blog: https://www.autismchrysalis.com/2022/08/13/shifting-negative-thought-patterns/
Oct 8, 2026, 10:26 PM@hmm_cook This is nice but it's always external factors that dictate life, which we have little control over. The only way to have this ability and that level of control over our own environment to enable this, means one must live in a very over privileged bubble, insulated by supportive people that understand us.
For the rest of us, life happens and overwhelms us. We have to keep moving, even if we no longer have the capacity, because we know the patterns, and know they get worse if we don't.